Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Away - Amy Bloom


I didn't care for this book. The style of writing was not focused but all over the place. I really didn't care for the style at all. Not at all. No good descriptions of characters and no buildup of them. I disliked finding out what happened to everyone who was not a main person. The main person Lillian is interesting enough and the story could have been compelling by a different author. She flees Russia when her whole family is murdered because they are Jewish. She ends up on the U.S. living life as a semi-prostitute until she finds out that her 3-year-old daughter might still be alive and she sets off to find her encountering more misery and prostitution along the way. Yuck. Nope. 4

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